Composition 3

Which training courses would you like to have access to as a teacher? Why? Which is, in your opinion, the best way to share good practice amongst teaching professionals? Why?

It is said that teachers are in a lifelong learning and it is true. Teacher training does not end by obtaining the university career but throughout their career receives formation in order to improve the teaching learning process.

There are professional learning communities and communities of practice whose main purpose is to enhance the success of all students by focusing attention on the impact that decisions relating to school organisation, teaching, assessment and curriculum have on student learning.

Many carried studies report on that when teachers are part of a professional learning community and they feel that it is safe to take risks and share information, they can review and alter their teaching practice so that it makes a real difference to their students' learning.

For this reason, I think that teachers should participate in training courses, seminars and working groups.

Observing the classrooms and making a diagnosis about the characteristics, possibilities and limitations of the students, I would like to have access to courses which teach me how to create educational material addressed to children with learning problems such as autism or speech problems. I think that in many times, teachers are exceeded due to the heterogeneity of the pupils and the difficulty to offer to each student an individual attention attending to their needs. In this sense, it is comforting to know other educational practices which can be implemented in our teaching practice.

The best way to share these good practice amongst teaching professionals is participating in seminars and working groups because this kind of learning offers the opportunity of getting together teachers that have the same interests in order to develop different activities, for instance: problem solving, request for information, seeking experience, reusing assets or discussing.